Riot-geared: the tensions behind France’s unrest
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The Economist
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🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squeezed on both political sides. In high-inflation times, rising wages worry economists—“wage-price spirals” are a textbook bogeyman. But perhaps the risk is overblown (10:34). And the researchers making burgers from extinct animals (18:22).
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| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. I'm your host, Jason |
| 0:37.7 | Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping |
| 0:42.4 | your world. |
| 0:47.0 | There are a few things that give economists sleepless nights like when wages and |
| 0:52.3 | inflation go up together threatening a wage-price spiral. Our correspondent says |
| 0:57.9 | not to worry. Those spirals are far scarier in theory than they are in |
| 1:02.4 | practice. And maybe you want a meeting meal, but maybe you want it to be |
| 1:08.6 | cruelty-free. Researchers are chasing up one way to satisfy both desires. How |
| 1:14.2 | about making burgers from extinct animals? |
| 1:18.3 | First up though. |
| 1:33.0 | What might have been a routine traffic stop has turned into national riots in |
| 1:38.0 | France, shining a light on the country's policing and squeezing President |
| 1:42.2 | Emmanuel Macron from both ends of the political spectrum. Today Mr. Macron will |
| 1:47.6 | meet with leaders of both houses of parliament as he tries to bring an end to |
| 1:51.5 | the violence. Last Tuesday a teenager named as Nile M was fatally shot by police |
| 1:57.9 | in the Paris suburb of Nantes. What's followed is nightly riots, looting and |
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